Great Power Technology

Ye Zhou's idea of ​​developing a mechanical exoskeleton was quickly passed to the Chief Technical Office by Chen Hao. Later, through the Chief Technical Office, the request was passed to Huaxia Ordnance Group. The other party's reply was simple:

At present, the design of mechanical exoskeletons in China has become mature. As long as the energy problem is solved, breakthrough progress can be achieved.

Therefore, based on this condition, the General Technical Office organized a meeting on the mechanical exoskeleton project and determined the basic goals.

In a relatively short period of time, a mechanical exoskeleton device that meets the usage standards and can greatly improve the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers will be produced. At the same time, in the future, we will begin to explore fully wrapped individual combat mechas.

From Ye Zhou's point of view, the latter goal is temporarily unreliable. This era is an era where offense is far greater than defense. No matter how thick the armor you design, one shot of large-caliber anti-equipment will automatically penetrate it. .

However, this is still a useful attempt. If there is a breakthrough in the field of materials science in the future, this thing can still play a certain role.

As for how to do it specifically, that is not something Ye Zhou needs to worry about.

Huaxia Ordnance Group will be fully responsible for this project. Once the batteries are obtained, they will start adapting them.

"The application range of your battery is much wider than I previously expected... Now I am starting to worry about the production capacity."

Chen Hao hung up the conference call and turned back to Ye Zhou.

Ye Zhou nodded and replied:

"It is a good thing that it has a wide range of applications. If there is no place where it can be applied, then why are we building it? In addition, there is no need to worry about production capacity."

"The General Technical Office authorizes commercial operations based on the patented model. Believe me, when it comes to making money, these domestic manufacturers are faster than anyone else."

"I understand, let's follow this plan first."

As he spoke, Chen Hao stood up and made a gesture of invitation to Ye Zhou, indicating that it was time for him to get off work.

The time was six o'clock in the afternoon. Ye Zhou glanced at his watch and followed Chen Hao out of the door.

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At the same time that China has completed the trial production of the first batch of batteries, the batteries from the island country have also come off the production line, all tests have been completed, and the data has been presented to the leadership desk.

"The energy density is 460WH/KG, which is very good. You guys have done a great job!"

"If this data is real, it means that the performance of our battery is fully doubled compared to the batteries currently on the market."

"That's enough for us to swallow up the entire market!"

"Watanabe, are your release plans ready? We need to spread the news immediately and seize the market initiative!"

The man standing aside quickly bowed slightly and answered:

"Mr. Shiraishi, everything is ready and we can release it at any time."

"Okay! Now! Don't wait! Our customers are all big companies in the professional field. They don't need any fancy publicity plans. Just tell them this information. Go, Watanabe, and win it for us. This city!”

"yes!"

Watanabe responded loudly and then exited the office.

Half an hour later, all major downstream manufacturers around the world received the news about Panasonic's new battery release. These manufacturers responded to the letter asking for technical details. After learning the number "460", some small manufacturers even issued POs directly.

This is a revolutionary breakthrough. The energy density of 460 means that if the existing battery layout is followed, the mileage of an electric car can directly exceed 1,000 kilometers.

No one wants to miss this opportunity to embrace the future.

In the afternoon of that day, news about the release of Panasonic’s 46-X model battery began to ferment, and it was quickly spread to other fields in other industries.

In the stock market, the stock prices of new energy vehicle companies and raw material lithium companies soared; in the futures market, the prices of related raw materials also strengthened, and the price of raw lithium once exceeded the highest point of the year.

International crude oil prices fell deeply. On the day before the news was finally confirmed, international oil prices fell by 12%.

This series of impacts caused panic among international energy giants. They issued statements one after another, pointing out that the use of crude oil is not only for civil fuel, but also for many other chemical industry applications. A new energy battery will not fundamentally affect the international supply and demand relationship of crude oil. Sexual influence.

However, no one listened to their explanation, because everyone could see how feeble their explanation was.

The price of crude oil continued to fall. At the critical time when it was about to fall below 20%, a piece of news from Aozhou ended the downward trend.

Greenbushese announced that from now on, due to the increase in raw material mining and refining costs, the ex-factory price of raw lithium will increase by 300% on the original basis.

A full 4 times.

The most important raw material for sulfur lithium batteries is lithium. If the price increases four times, it means that the cost of a single battery will increase more than three times.

Such rising costs almost completely swallowed up the dividends brought by improved battery performance, and for a while, Panasonic was in chaos.

Shiraishi sat in the large conference room, frowning.

He had already called Aozhou through his contacts, trying to find out their intentions of raising prices without warning, but their answers were extremely perfunctory. At best, they just repeated what they had already said in public statements. Say it again with your mouth.

"Mr. Evans, I understand your company's business strategy, but at the same time, I also hope that your company can give us a reasonable explanation based on our good cooperation foundation and deep friendship."

"We have always been a high-quality customer of your company and purchase a large amount of raw materials from your company every year - most of the cash we spend on raw materials flows to your company."

“This time our new battery is released, the technology requires a large amount of raw material lithium. In the foreseeable future, our cooperation will continue to deepen, so with all due respect, I would like to ask you for an answer on behalf of our entire company. "

Hearing Shiraishi's words, the person on the other end of the phone sighed helplessly, and then replied:

"Mr. Shiraishi, I know you are dissatisfied with this price increase, but, as we said, this is a decision that has to be made due to the reality of increased costs."

"Of course we hope to continue to cooperate with you, and we also hope that we can stand together and work together to achieve greater business results, but all this must be based on respecting each other's strategies."

"In addition, I would like to give you a piece of advice here: Do not regard our strategy as malicious, we are not targeting you."

Bai Shi listened in silence, and after a long time, he finally said:

"alright, I got it."

With that, he said goodbye politely and hung up the phone.

He had already understood the implication of the other party's words.

If it is not directed at oneself, it is directed at China.

That's right, like our own, Chinese companies are also conducting research on sulfur-lithium batteries, and their success is almost inevitable. The only thing behind them is time.

Once they come up with new batteries, the impact on this market will be extremely terrible.

Because, in their place, every piece of blue ocean will turn into a red ocean in a very short period of time.

And if they continue to use cheap high-density batteries to impact the energy market, it will definitely be losses not only to their peers, but also to the entire energy industry chain - the energy industry chain with oil as its core.

Ugly officials will not let such a thing happen. This is the fundamental reason for Greenbushese’s price increase.

They are just trying to preserve gas prices.

Thinking of this, Shiraishi sighed deeply.

He originally thought that this technological breakthrough would bring unparalleled advantages to his company, and even gain a certain degree of monopoly status, on an equal footing with the real giants in the world, but now it seems that is not the case at all.

The power to formulate the rules of the game is still firmly in the hands of the opponent. If he wants you to play, he will let you play. If he doesn't want you to play, he will stuff a bunch of bad cards into your hand.

And you can't resist, you can only continue to play with this bad hand.

Can you win against bad cards?

Bai Shi secretly shook his head.

Maybe, but it would be too difficult.

The moment he dismissed the meeting in despair, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind:

The real opponent of Chou Country is China. So, in this case, what will the Chinese do?